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1) Refine/rationalize the skill list. Fewer, broader skills make for more enjoyable characters IME. I'd also define a significant number of "basic" skills as class skills for all of the Base Classes. 2) Personally I think the dichotomy between generic Base Classes and archetypal...

Both attributes and skills are rated by dice type, so to shoot a gun you might roll 1d8 (for your agility) + 1d6 (for your firearms skill), total the dice rolled and compare the result to a target number. It's somewhat reminiscent of the Alternity system, albeit simplified. It's a good game...

I think you'll find that plenty of magic-oriented players couldn't care less about swords. Me, I love 'em and very rarely do I play a fantasy character who doesn't use 'em. But there's no accounting for personal taste. KoOS

Sure. Some people think the Palladium house system is clean and logical, too. Some people think GURPS is too artsy-fartsy and not "realistic" enough, and would rather play something like Phoenix Command. There's no accounting for personal taste. My personal tastes run towards systems that...

It is a matter of taste. For me, everything you've described is so incredibly clunky, unwieldy and limiting that I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Other people might feel similarly about point-buy, of course. I think you're half-right: people who are already d20M fans, and interested...

You mean, like people who play wizards and clerics? The WoD games appear to have achieved a reasonable measure of popularity without putting any meaningful focus on guns. KoOS

The idea that a janitor could legitimately claim the same access to information as a member of the design staff is ridiculous. I think my assumption that you were only using it rhetorically was giving you more credit than the alternative... And stating that any game is among the industry...

You seem to have an idiosyncratic definition of "grandstand." I don't see anything ostentatious in what Pramas is saying. Nor do I see fair grounds to doubt his claims -- just because game companies don't discuss sales numbers publicly, doesn't mean that game company personnel don't exchange...

Point of interest: In Canada, Chapters (our Borders/B&N equivalent) no longer stocks new d20M product in stores. They stopped prior to the release of d20F, because the line just didn't move enough copies. Now, they only sell D&D books (incl. related titles like EQ) and minis, and SW minis. KoOS

Well, yeah. I did note that Kult is far more extreme than WoD (either iteration), right? There are few differences between the editions, and no differences in the morality mechanics we're talking about. In any case, the morality system -- as with every other element of the game -- is...

You've already mentioned that you think Atlantis is on an even plane with space bats. Do you really not understand that not everyone agrees with your personal opinion? I don't take issue with your opinion, I take issue with your insistence that everybody (or even a substantial portion of...

No it isn't, and now you're being silly. There's nothing in Awakening about Aquaman, nor about crystal-wavers. Indeed, there's very little hard info on Atlantis beyond "it was a city on an island where a bunch of wizards lived in a time before history, and then they had a big war and...

This encapsulates exactly what I've been saying all along: Your baggage does not constitute valid criticism of a game. If you can't separate Awakening from Ascension, that's entirely and wholly down to you. Awakening is not a "derivation" of Ascension, they're separate games and explicitly...

Here's why your "problem" is only a problem for you: I don't share your perspective on Atlantis. Many people don't share your perspective on Atlantis. Many people do share your perspective on Atlantis, but that's okay -- I generally don't game with those people and their tastes are irrelevant...

I don't think a game like Mage (old or new versions) could have been published in the early '80s -- to say nothing of Kult! KoOS

Kult is about a bazillion shades darker than anything for oWoD or nWoD (outside of Black Dog). It's more oriented towards mundane characters, and indeed I've considered using the nWoD corebook for a Kult-based campaign. It's an excellent game, albeit it can easily degenerate into juvenile...

Do you really mean to imply that 5,000 people is an insignificant subset of the Freeport fanbase (or the fanbase of any non-Wizards line)? That doesn't jibe with my understanding of industry economics in 2005, where 5,000 is a reasonably successful print run for a supplement not published by...

Yeah, but I'm not sure how this contradicts anything I wrote. I'm not talking about definition versus non-definition of capital-T Truth; I'm talking about a world in which both A and Not-A are defined as the capital-T Truth. Put more clearly, you can't have a world where, say, Islam and...

But so what? I don't dispute that belief mattered in Mage, but I do dispute that merely believing made that belief true... which was your earlier assertion. KoOS

It is certainly possible... in theory. What I doubt is that you are able to do so in practice, where WW is concerned. Your own commentary here and elsewhere only supports this conclusion. Again, people with an irrational hatred of a producer can't offer credible commentary on the product...